The announcement of plans for a MacGyver movie has spread around the world like wild fire. Every news blog on the internet seems to have grabbed this news and is running with it. It’s even beginning to appear on a TV news.
While many of the first reports where just copies of the original news from The Hollywood Reporter, those who are picking it up a little later have gotten over the initial excitement of the news and are now beginning to take a little more objective approach to the news and starting to analyze it further.
We’re now beginning to see some thoughtful response and questions about this news. Aside from the obvious questions about casting, there’s also some pondering being done over New Line Cinema’s “We think we’re a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from a global franchise.” As one report pointed out, this hardly inspires confidence.
Non-the-less this doesn’t take away from the impact the news seems to have had around the world. Who would have thought that a show from the 80’s which regularly got kicked around by Monday night football would make such a big impact with a movie announcement some 17 years after it ended.
Certainly the popularity of the MacGruber skits on Saturday Night Live and the recent guest appearance of MacGyver himself, Richard Dean Anderson, in these skits has had a bearing on the decision to run with this movie.
It shows that RDA is still willing and happy to be associated with the character, and more importantly that the character is still hugely popular and widely remembered by the general public. Piece this together with recent polls which show MacGyver as the #1 person most Americans would want beside them in a disaster and the #1 TV tough guy, and we have what would seem to be a perfect climate for a movie.
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